New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . has been prominent in the poli- family has been almost as prominent in New HampshireState affairs as the Langdons themselves. Mr. Langdonwas educated in the famous High School of Portsmouth,where so many men afterwards distinguished in life receivedtheir elementary education, and was prepared for a college »course by private instructors, but evincing more taste fora mercantile than a professional career he, with his parentsconsent, entered the drygoods commission house of Froth-ingham &: Co., Hoston, in 1863, and placed in c
New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men. . has been prominent in the poli- family has been almost as prominent in New HampshireState affairs as the Langdons themselves. Mr. Langdonwas educated in the famous High School of Portsmouth,where so many men afterwards distinguished in life receivedtheir elementary education, and was prepared for a college »course by private instructors, but evincing more taste fora mercantile than a professional career he, with his parentsconsent, entered the drygoods commission house of Froth-ingham &: Co., Hoston, in 1863, and placed in charge of theNew York branch of the business. He was admitted asmember of the firm in 1868. In 1870 Mr. Frothinghamdied and the business was continued under the style of Joy,Langdon & Co., a name which it still retains and by which it isfavorably known and esteemed all over the country, repre-senting as it does many of the manufacturers of the EasternStates. Mr. Langdon has been for many years associatedwith the New York Chamber of Commerce, and since 1888. WOODBURY LAXODOX. tical and literary life of the country, every generation fur-nishing its quota of distinguished men. The great-grand-father of the subject of this sketch, who was also a Wood-bury Langdon, was a native of Portsmouth and a leadingmerchant of that town, and took an active part in the revolu-tionary movement which culminated in American indepen-dence. He was Judge of the Supreme Court of NewHampshire for the years between 1786 and 1789. His bro-ther John also look a leading jjart in the Revolution, andas a reward for his patriotic services was elected Ciovernorof New Hampshire, and afterwards a Senator when therewas neither a President nor a Vice-President of the L;nitedStates. Mr. Langdons father (another Woodbury) was amerchant and shi])master of Portsmouth, as many of hisancestors had been before him, and his mother, FrancesCutter, a daughter of Jacob Cutter of the same town, whose has been a member of its
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